News organizations targeted by President Donald Trump’s attempt to ban them from the White House asked a federal judge late Monday to extend his order temporarily restoring their access, describing the ban as an “unlawful assault on the most fundamental First Amendment freedoms.

CNN, MS NOW and Politico, which President Trump abruptly banished from White House grounds​ this month, asked a federal court to block the ban until the case against it is resolved.

The ad came after the White House recently launched its own 24/7 video channel, branded "Trump TV: The Essentials Station."

Donald Trump has filled his Cabinet with people who are too afraid to speak out against his bad ideas, White House insiders say. A lengthy profile from Politico on the dynamics of Trump’s second-term White House includes a damning comment from a senior administration official,

Major League Baseball approached President Donald Trump’s administration about hosting a ballgame in a national park, White House and MLB officials told the Washington Post. The administration then scouted out locations in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming, two other people with knowledge of the situation told the Post.

A White House official also defended the ads as “clearly not political” and asserted that Trump “is not on the ballot and the ads don’t have a call to action,” though Trump has repeatedly encouraged voters to “pretend” that he is on the ballot.

AI-created images imagined what happened after the White House state dinner with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

The White House TV pool went dark this past week amid a standoff between CNN and the president. Network leaders, however, believe an indefinite suspension may be untenable.

Exactly one week after news outlets filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump and his sudden ban of CNN, MS NOW and Politico from White House grounds, the standoff continues.